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The Impact of Political & Interest Rate Shifts on Private Markets
Avoiding Capital Sourcing Scams: Middle Eastern Venture Debt
Creating a Data Room for Investors: A Step-by-Step Guide
How Not to Muck It Up
ROIC: Return On Investor Conference
Maximizing Probability of Raising Series A Financing
Networking That Doesn’t Work
Elevator Pitch Makes Me Want To High-rise Dive
MSC Huddle: Future of Intelligent Company Performance Management
Healthcare Fundraising: Strategies, Challenges, and the Road to Growth
LeadGen Co Fails To Show For LeadGen Meeting
A Guide to Business Growth Consultants & Development Consulting
Regardless of your industry, adaptability is the keystone of success in modern business. With technological advancements reshaping industries and global events disrupting markets, organizations face unprecedented challenges that make it difficult to identify advantageous investment opportunities.
Valuation Advisory Services that Optimize Transaction Outcomes
Traditional business valuation reports often contain several weaknesses that can jeopardize business transactions, whether you’re looking to scale or sell. After evaluating many inferior third-party valuations that caused their associated transactions to fail, we’ve identified some of the most common errors that innovative growth companies should avoid during the valuation process and when working closely with valuation advisors.
FinOps Venture Capital Strategies & Private Equity Consulting to Raise Capital
Accessing capital efficiently and effectively is paramount for startups and companies seeking growth and expansion opportunities. Marion Street Capital (MSC) specializes in providing unparalleled private equity and venture capital consulting through our FinOps services to companies at every stage of their fundraising journey, offering a range of tools designed to streamline the capital-raising process and maximize success.
Coping with Executive-Level Mental Health Challenges: Solutions for Company Leaders
In the fast-paced lifestyle of company leaders, founders, and C-suite executives, high-stakes decisions and relentless demands are the norm. Unfortunately, mental health, therefore, often takes a back seat. The challenges these leaders face can be overwhelming, impacting their personal well-being and the overall health of the organizations they lead. Marion Street Capital was granted an exclusive and insightful interview with Johnny Crowder, CEO of Cope Notes, who sheds light on the mental health struggles of company executives and explores innovative solutions that provide comprehensive support and enhance mental well-being for startup founders to long-term CEOs—and how you can do the same.
SVB & Signature Bank Fail: Three Strategies to Maximize Liquidity
Marion Street Capital recommends that innovative growth companies immediately take three steps to mitigate liquidity risk. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Signature Bank caused widespread uncertainty regarding the stability of regional banks, and it nearly caused dozens of innovative growth companies to fail as their abilities to process payroll were briefly threatened. This led to record inflows of $15B in customer deposits to bulge bracket banks like J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America.
MSC Huddle: Seed Investing Outside of VC Hubs
Marion Street Capital hosted its first Huddle of 2023 to speak with expert VC and angel investors about the challenges that companies located outside of the major venture capital hubs face when raising seed capital.
The Metrics Investors Want: Quantitative Forecasting for Seed Series A Startups
Originally published on Toptal, the industry leader for the top 3% of outsourced talent: It’s a catch-22 for young startups: How do you attract investors with compelling financial projections if you don’t have historical data? Here’s a three-part strategy for making the most of what you’ve got to seal the deal.
Investing in the Future of Self-Driving Cars
Ivee, a SaaS mobility company improving the passenger experience, in partnership with Marion Street Capital hosted a roundtable in which experts from Blacklane and Toyota Boshoku shared their insights around expected trends in the transportation industry and the increased importance of the passenger experience in this industry.
MSC Huddle: Demystifying Family Offices for Growth Companies
Marion Street Capital hosted its third huddle focusing on Demystifying Family Offices for Growth Companies where experts discuss recent investing trends and common mistakes by entrepreneurs when approaching family offices.